Office: 127 Sinsheimer Labs
Phone: 831-459-4251
Fax: 831-459-2935
Email: pradip@chemistry.ucsc.edu

Pradip Mascharak was born in Jaipur, India in 1953. He received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1979. In the same year, he joined the research group of Professor Richard Holm at Stanford University and later moved to Harvard University. He also worked with Professor Steve Lippard at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years before joining the University of California, Santa Cruz in late 1984. Modeling of active sites of metealloenzymes, design of anti-tumor drugs and catalysts for hydrocarbon oxidation are the major focus his research. His hobbies include photography and gardening.